TRUMP SAYS THAT IT WOULD BE OK WITH HIM IF THE DEMOCRATS WON THE SENATE NEXT NOVEMBER

Trump Says He 'Doesn't Mind' Losing The Senate To Democrats. That Means His Supporters Are Suckers.

While Republican delegates prepare to nominate Donald
Trump in Cleveland in two weeks, Trump provided yet another piece of
evidence that he’s not particularly concerned with the success of the
party he has hijacked. New York Times Magazine
asked Trump about the importance of maintaining a Republican Senate.
Here was Trump’s almost incomprehensible answer – an answer that would
be utterly incomprehensible if Trump were actually a conservative or a
serious Republican: “Well, I’d like them to do that. But I don’t mind
being a free agent, either.”
Of course he wouldn’t. He has no intention of making conservative priorities his own.

Imagine the scenario Trump says he wouldn’t mind: a Democratic
Senate. You can forget about a conservative on the Supreme Court. That
notion would be dead on arrival. You could also forget about Trump’s
supposed immigration priorities, including the fabled Trump Wall and
more stringent deportations. So the two top priorities for conservatives
– replacing Justice Scalia with someone of like mind, and ending the
Democratic strategy of importing potential voters – would be an
impossibility.
And Trump says he wouldn’t mind.
He likely wouldn’t mind because he wants
to cut deals with Democrats. That provides him popularity and a
concomitant sense of meaning. Trump would cut “great” trade and tax
deals with Democrats. He’d likely sign off on significant elements of
the left’s social agenda. He’d compromise on gun rights.

And he wouldn’t mind doing it.
He’s acting like it, too.
According to Ryan Williams, strategist with the 2012 Romney presidential
campaign, “Traditionally, the nominee has a robust campaign that
absorbs the RNC effort and works in tandem with the down-ballot
campaigns. We did that with Romney in 2012. This time around, there’s a
complete void at the presidential level. Trump’s trying to play a game
of baseball and hasn’t put out an infield.”
So far, the polls
don’t show Trump doing significant damage down ballot. But the fact that
he doesn’t seem to care should tell Republicans everything they need to
know about his priorities.

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